Then our Award Winning girls off new data sold. We find out why some kind of Union Children are scared of wearing the School Uniform. Our show today is about healing after war. And while we do not want to portray africa as war, it in the truth is that there are a current t more than 35. 00. Im conflicts happening on the continent now for peace and healing to occur. Its necessary to understand what the warring factions were fighting about in the 1st place. So lets begin with the t great conflict, and if your pm, if youre not from the horn of africa, you probably havent heard much about that conflict recently. So lets take a look at where things stand at the moment. On 2nd, november 2022, acute the federal government and the tv Peoples Liberation fun, but to pure of agree to end 2 years or 4 in particular region. But how does the conflict integration begin . Lets start on the 4th november 2020. If your best Prime Minister of the estimate ordered, if you can National Defense force troops into degree. Civil effect has led to the crisis. Power struggle an election and a push for political reform since 1994. If your peer has had a federal system in which different ethnic groups control, this is of 10 regions. 50 po f, which is credited with ending if you can submit it to reach you in 1991 was quite influential in setting up that system. However, when i be made was selected as Prime Minister 2018 teachers need to store history forms as an attempt to centralized power and destroyed the cubic is federal system. The feud came to a hit in september 23, 85, the Central Government to hold its own original election months later itd be made since the army took degree and the consequentially escalated into civil, also known as a t 3 war millions were displaced because of the conflict, humanitarian aid was difficult to deliver those needed and soldiers from both sides, accused of human rights, violations, and rate. Some estimate half a 1000000 people died. If you, if you ask me, but in form it 1st we reach, you joins the if you can government early in the contract of to months of to 9 the present in spring 2021 Prime Minister of the estimate administered, retrench troops were fighting into great of the peace thoughts have resulted in less violence in the region and a chance for the people into great to rebuild their lives. So the conflict and t gray is not quite over yet, but in many parts of the region, life is slowly getting back to normal for 40 grand women, finding healing as a war comes in many forms for some senior consulate has helped for admit on that hon its finding time to enjoy traditional ceremonies just like before the war. And this year shes especially excited about the ashen, the festival. The met on best time gets a soft, ready for this and a traditional to graham festival. That honest woman and goes the the joy for atmosphere, however, marks a stock reality the just a few months ago. The train to Makeup Artist was a soldier in the t great defense for the ultimate if i were to want, its just we were the supply team and delivered munition to the front not to go. We did not care so much about our own lives, but rather the lives of a comrades on the front line to go to taylor because of us, they could engage the enemy. You need to know that what was really hard though, were the drones which followed us and destroyed our depots and hiding places out of not being able to deliver ammunition due to the strikes was the hardest part of the law. But im happy to odyssey in november 2020, a conflict between the c o p and an arrow trail, and the t great Peoples Liberation friend escalated into a harrowing with a killed of a half a 1000000 people. The women played a vital role in the conflict fabi and being a victim as active as nurses, doctors, and soldiers. They had a decisive impact on shaping the costs of the wall. The and my candidate capital of t. Great in northern you see, oh yeah, thats and as being celebrated for the 1st time, 3 years for one week, man, i expected to present small gifts, while women with additional impressions gather in town squares and streets to make music done and have fun. Its kind of a equity. Yeah. There are many other female evictions and mikaela just like the best time to join the local militia to protect themselves from the um, according to them. A decision that lets i get it gives a busy lassie also had to make the tools because of what the retreat in the human army due to us, the raping and killing of the young people of tikrit, particularly women. Our anger and frustration drove us to the front lines, but now with the prospect of peace, were finally feeling a sense of relief and happiness. The celebration is early after the war inflicted a severe tolan will issue of him with a trust that hes committed by all sides, women and t grey. Those were disproportionately affected and systematic. He brutalized by soldiers, mckaylas hospital, more luminous being, leads to the one stop st of a victims of sexual violence. She actually has conscious stories of extreme abuse, a woman and goes mutilation in other forms of torture. She does her best to help those who have made the oddest journey to the hospital. My mother tried to follow with i dont want to talk to them. No thats i came here. And thats i came alone. I had so many problems guessing here. You do have lots of fights and going on and the army was to day. Ringback i had no other choice but to go to the village. I did this picture associates as a will coming go. As well as a, to the site, the season to put a doors in the us as a because the nice because of a just to get in to present on this and said we want to land on the place on us. We have 3 the especially the woodlands to get a tendency to close women at the point of country look able to keep it after counseling more than 2000 rape survivors. Miss vin believes that the remarkable place of women integrates history is one reason why they are old deliberately targeted they make this make this come here with me. You are my boss and this was kind of back on the streets, but from makes a way to the main to send a fist of a ts lets. Lets have some fun of this house. At martinez bologna, stadium benz chip. The audience men can only watch from the galleries. This was not the 1st wall in which the women love to grace, ford for their lives and freedom from 1974 to 1991. The tpl if played a pivotal role in defeating if youre, if he has repressive military regime. Approximately 88000 women were actively involved. One 3rd of po, if competence for the firm from an empty and strain a complementary rather than contradictory destiny. What else . What sets this ocean, the pod from previous ones is the intense fighting the hunger and all the other hardship. Then again, the hums even dick on the ship, but the girls are resilient to this. Even after all, the attacks witnessing them then tall and celebrate ocean. The fields me with immense joy, the outcome of this transformation is what makes this session to truly special this for many this year as a sanders festival. As you need to significant. Its not only a celebration of peace, Cultural Heritage and woman, but also attribute to the resilience of woman degree. We mean us truly, we are facing so many problems, but to always overcome them from one generation to the next. Thats what makes it stronger the while a send. A celebrated a recent report by physicians for human rights and organization for justice and accountability in the horn of africa, revealed military units and t graceful. Carry out shocking sexual violence. This is an oven by 2022 piece agreement. In fact, that is just one of many conflicts where a rape is used as a weapon of war. It was the same and the civil war of sierra leone, which lasted for 11 years. Now although that conflict ended more than 20 years ago, those who survived it still carry visible and invisible scars with them. Lets look at some background. The wars started in 1991 when the rebel group revolutionary united front form to over throw the government over 10000 children, some as young as 5 years where recruited by armed groups and became child soldiers. The fighters carried out numerous horrific atrocities, rape abductions, amputations, killings. They also destroyed towns and villages the rebels payments their activities through the sale of so called the blood or conflict. Diamonds. With the help of liberia has been president Charles Taylor diamonds were smuggled abroad and later as sold worldwide. By the time the war ended in 2002, after 70000 people had died and over 2000000 were displaced. Those sierra leone ends live in peace today. Many say that the underlying causes of the war, such as corruption, poverty, and unemployment remain unresolved to the state. In 2022, my colleague, it is kamani, travel to the sierra leone and capital free town. And thats just spoke to people who are merely children during the war to find out how the conflict is impacting their lives even today. The hello and welcome to the 77 percent of the show for applicants. This week we are in the west african country. It looks early on and 20 years ago this. Yeah, i mean lived in india, brutal civil war came to an end. Unfortunately, to some of the people who participated in that, who lost their loved ones and even lost some of their limbs. What children 20 as on those children now make a part of the 77 percent and we want to find out from them. What does the world look like for them . So well begin to with more how much you tell our view was what you went through. Our safety natural is when the river that fact in our town shape. And we went with a voice for 3 months. Then there was nothing to eat with my beard and asked me to go outside and get some foods. So on my way, green, i step from out on the mines. So its a much colors dropped my leg. Yeah. So i was send a voice for 3 good. This was, i mean thats really, really tough. How do you survive in the bush for 3 days with an unprotected leg . It was really tough for me because i was crawling my hands and my knees supposed to be would this . Im really, really sorry to hear about that. Unfortunately, its more terrible news and were just going to come to you for a 2nd of fun to see. We because what theyre describing is not alien to you even having been an ive and also a teenager at that time. No. Uh, but it wasnt, it was and actually, and for the fact that i think it was in 1998. I was a child. And then to rebuild, attacked and killed by law. We went into the bush with our life for like, uh, 5 days a thing gets to my mother. And then my mother is like, you have to go back and get medication. And then i went that and i saw a family friend and i went back and there was no way to go back to my mother and then he was like, youre safe with me. Are you good . You know, spend the night and then that was the night that i bought by him not once or twice 3 times. And then i was the helpless. I could see nothing about set up. Okay. Well, thank you for sharing that. Right . Yes. So lets come to each file, please explain to us what happened with you and how you found yourself to be here today, alive and well. So when i was about 12 years old, the war came into my life. I started running from its by the time i was 13, ive been recruited to fight in the government army. And i fought for nearly 3 years. I lost everything my, my home, my aspirations long and short of it. I was able to survive to walk in and i was adopted in the family in the united states, so i left. But i carried the burden of the wall, which means because i felt beautiful having survived. And by the way, you smells case and everybody else weve heard from today, the case is the case is a one of tens of, but its estimated that about 10000 children participated in that will. And the children were talking about a probably not older than the ones who are playing football here. So that gives us a visual, but also very difficult to imagine, maria, and so you will one when the war ended. But your parents obviously who raised you and who gave us to you were very much part of this crisis. Is this something that you discuss at home openly . Has it affected how you were raised it as affected . Lots of family members that i knew it directly . And what, what we experience is the trauma trauma will. So you would, you would experience that lots of family members were not able to get jobs, were not able to learn skills because the up for mid cv, is we had destroyed by the war. Let me invite john to this conversation. What do you think is the biggest challenge of the biggest thing that people are still carrying with them from the world . Well, the biggest thing is to have a conversation added community live. Most of the because in to young generation did not experience the war and for the export as to what well do to have the space to have that dialogue. So i think part of our college initial is having an ongoing conversation about what went wrong. Okay. So let me come back to frontier here because were hearing that on the one hand, natalie to the opportunity to them, to spaces, to speak openly. They dont exist but not speaking about it creates more trauma even for the generations after the fact. When one thing were good at, and so early on is we move too fast and we pretend like what happened yesterday didnt happen. And thats why you have people like me and then the people, the fucking up. There is a time become like, sole partner, like any sounds would i i would just like i went into like i was just blackout issue. So let me come to you. Did you get a chance to get sort of Mental Health care after the fact . Uh uh yes, i did have a little bit of mental uh, sizes of sure therapy as they used to call it right after the war. That was not the case for a lot of people. Yeah. Now what i, what i also want to really address is the fact that if you look at the society scenario, now a lot of us are broken. Can you give me some of those examples . What think about social personal spaces, the way people view women, way people view relationships, all of those things. So the dysfunctionality is, had existed during the war. And some of the people who inherited that went on to the parents and race children. They dont know how to pass on those things to them. Yeah, i want to hear from my re, um, if the Education System is also catering to this, you know, as somebody who says, your facing 2nd generational trauma, is it something that youre taught to school . Are you addressing this in your own sort of, youd circle as Mental Health issues right now lots of people even use as my age do found around Mental Health discussions, trauma, depression, anxiety, the dont want to talk about it. And even i have spoken to some of my colleagues west study mets in, in things where i live in college of lives. And theyll tell you that i dont want to studies psychology or be a psychiatric piece because everybody in my company to feel out of my fussy and im working with my people. So let me ask a question that, you know, it might even sound call us to ask, but i need to have Sierra Leonean really lunch from the wor, no, a, no, no, no. When you say youre saying that everybody says no, everyone is wrong. You know why . Because we pretend like it didnt happen. Nobody talk about, say, not in school, not in college, not in houses in that it didnt happen. Mariam, you . One of the people who said very emphatic, you know, we havent clung all the situations around the wall, all the effects, all the things that lets do all i still present, i still have career ups and these have you to an employment is helpful that these yeah, and even the fact that we dont talk about seats makes the most kerry, because if we dont talk about the how do we want to move past it . So john, how do we move forward from a situation like this . What we need is, of course, corruptive engagement of with young people. Lets try to include in the curriculum of schools, the history of the will most likely not parts of the curriculum. Oh its oh my goodness. Its not to disclose. Lets how that go about the show in the schools does university so that people get to understand what went through. All right . If i could add something to that, there is an adage and sorry, do you know . No, it was i, you come whats, you know . No, it was like you to go. If you dont know where youre coming from, you will not know where you going. Lets know where weve been. What, whats the, whats behind those the do you live with that . And didnt know how to go forward. If not, well go back to that. Yeah, i think thats a fantastic place to end. Its very rare, thats one district debates. We dwell on the past, but it is something that has come out very, very clearly today. Is that in some instances, in order to move forward, as fantasy said very clearly, you sometimes have to look back. Thank you for watching the as we heard in the bay, whenever there is Armed Conflict in the region or a country, its the children whose stuff are the most in the constant fear of being displaced from the home. They grew up and maybe even witnessing people being killed right in front of them. And the English Speaking regions of kind of a rolling one major impact of the fighting. There has been that children can barely go to school because its not safe. In our Award Winning girls of mute peace, a reporter who is a student herself, spoke to friends and teachers to find out how they are managing to still get an education. The now the phone come moon school, just like me. Ill face with incredible danger. Thats because these are you guys. So thats a realm between the government on people, one to separate states. Sometimes they at the school did you always keeps one eye on the classroom window because the children have been killed by at that goes right into the classroom in this region and still have been shut. Ok, not on the way to our from school it as happens to some of my friends and all that have moved to other parts of the country to continue with that education. Look, im as well as a School Uniform because i dont want to attack us. No, almost google. I am lacrisha for those of you and im going to be telling you was cold, youre just like me, a fights and then we go to school in bremond, the why do you worry about when you need for school early in the morning . Lets start with you fable. When you leave for school in the morning, you have to be scared of the random can knobs the gunshots. No tugs the sometimes because of serial gunshots. The new tags is available for us to go to School Elementary school lead. What of you prima asked me what i would love to go to school and my School Uniform. Okay, lets go back, let us keeping it in front of fundraiser, but not i could not co my books and paper. Im going to squeeze you. How does this confound being . Just affects your education as a student or 4 or 5, are you facing the gc examinations . You have to be in school, you must be able to pull that up. Youll see levels so asked to meet the expectations of did you see both . Because you said general eye exam doing no quality that i did not resume, sold with that in crises and almost dont said based what they told you. Those said base to this level, she was supposed to call back but it community here is not give and up to a show that education continues. It has set up mix youve schools as discreetly as possible. We just support of unemployed teachers, local clergy. But when the enemy strikes at teachers are also left helpless. Ill skip it in on. Also, as a teacher, i can only play my role in the classroom. And if the government comes into the classroom, i am helpless and you talk to the gills about safety measures. Always stood in, avoid should goods avoid going home late at night. I would visiting friends on also the move in groups. You remember when last you failed, save on your way to school at school. The last time i felt safe at school on my way to school was around 2016. When do a new crises, i totally lost a good number of friends. So my drop out, so my, my wisdom teeth and some of them i dont know with, i dont know, he does the i life. I did yells like us here in bomb and once to have an education. But we need a secure environment to achieve that. The long Standing Police got in security and violence, thatd be a extra thing here in bremond is standing in the way of that. Old battery board from lou impressions in cumberland wraps up the 77 press and for a to date. To remember, you can always get great content from our team anytime you want, just follow us on youtube, facebook, instagram and take tuck. So in the so we heard a lot about how people are overcoming war and hardships and hopefully headed into a positive future. So i want to leave you with an after listing phone here is then love were you acquired with, we will rise. Im gonna show you next time the or the smoke cities. They have a key to sustainable season urban centers devouring energy the world as a dissolution. 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